A DOCTOR at the centre of a breast cancer scandal has been forced to quit his job.

Dr Amjad Husien, 53, wrongly gave 22 women the all-clear when he worked at Trafford General Hospital between 2003 and 2005.

He was suspended on his full £75,000 salary for three years and in March, after a two-week hearing, doctors' watchdog the General Medical Council banned him from working as a medic for a year.

Last month he went to court to try to prevent hospital bosses from stopping his pay, but after losing he has resigned. Managers went ahead with an internal disciplinary review and decided they had no confidence in him.

Three men and a woman are due in court this afternoon charged with robbery following a raid on Ashtead post office on Wednesday.

Three men wearing hooded tops burst in to the post office about 9.25am in Barnett Wood Lane and demanded money.

Police said they made off with a significant amount of cash.

Prudence Crouch, 21, from Berry Meade, Ashtead, Adrian Jones, 29, from Fulham House Road, Hammersmith, Tyrone Jones, 19, from Peckford Place, Brixton and Fidel Simpson, 18 from New Park Road, Clapham have all been charged with robbery and will appear at South East Surrey Magistrates' Court this afternoon.

Mr Morgan said he saw the petrified boy hold his hands out in an attempt
to placate one of his pursuers but Martin was felled by a punch to the
head.

His attacker then pinned him to the ground and made repeated stabbing
motions towards his back, the court heard.

Mr Morgan and his girlfriend rang 999 and, in a tape recording played to
the jury, told the operator: 'There is a white guy and a massive group
of black guys who are kicking the crap out of him.'

Two men and two youths have pleaded not guilty to the murder of Martin
in Holloway in June last year.

Aftab Jafferjee QC, prosecuting, has told the jury how Martin was beaten
to the ground and stabbed 'in a case that moved from dirty looks to
death within an hour'.

Mr Morgan gave evidence today from behind screens to shield his face
from the dock and the public gallery.

He told how he and his girlfriend had been on their way to get a DVD
from a rental store when the boy he later recognised as Martin, wearing
a grey tracksuit and hood, ran towards them.

'He was very white faced, he was sprinting towards us and shouted: "Help
me, please help me,"' Mr Morgan said.

'He ran past us on the road to my left then a guy with a black tracksuit
went past on a large-framed BMX.

'He was cycling after the victim and was the distance of one parked car
away from us.

'He was very dark skinned although I was unable to see his face as he
was wearing a black hooded jumper with the hood pulled up.

'He dropped the bike when he got alongside the victim. Martin stood
still and put his hands up as if to placate the cyclist. Martin appeared
scared, very scared.

'The effect on the cyclist was almost nothing whatsoever and the next
thing was that a large haymaker came from his right fist. It was a right
hook and the blow connected with Martin's head or neck.'

At this point Mr Morgan's attention was distracted by another youth
sprinting up and shouting, the court heard.

'I looked back up the road and Martin was on the floor now,' Mr Morgan
said.

'It looked as if the first assailant was leaning on top of Martin who
was on his back and side facing away from us.

'The first assailant was leaning with all his weight on Martin's
shoulder and upper arm pressing him to the floor so that Martin seemed
to be pinned to the floor.

'Then I saw what seemed to be a stabbing motion rather than a punching
motion four or five times in very rapid succession.'

Mr Morgan explained that he had not seen a knife but, as he was
experienced in martial arts and disarming those armed with knives, he
could identify the difference between a punching and stabbing action,
which he demonstrated to the jury.

He then told how a crowd of up to 20 people aged 'between 10 and 20'
started 'laying into' Martin.

Mr Morgan rang 999 at 8.38pm, telling the operator that it looked as
though one of the attackers had a knife.

Martin, a pupil at St Aloysius College in Archway, died at the scene.

Rene John-Baptiste, 21, of Plaistow, Sean Clark, 19, of Holloway, and a
16-year-old from Finsbury Park and a 17-year-old from Holloway, who
cannot be named because of their ages, have all pleaded not guilty to
murder.

A GIRL aged 16 suffered a serious sexual assault after getting into a car she mistook for a taxi.

The girl left Albion House in Grimsby on Tuesday night to wait for a taxi she had called at the junction of Oxford Street and Albion Street.

She got into the front seat of a silver, four-door vehicle when the driver pulled up and sounded the horn. The driver headed towards her home in the Park Street area of the town before attacking the girl in Tunnard Close, a cul-de-sac.

The suspect, who is possibly from Pakistan, is chubby, in his 30s, with short-dark hair, glasses, and a blotchy complexion.

STRONG safety warnings are being issued after a woman claims to have been the victim of an alleged rape in the backseat of an unlicensed mini-cab.

The 21-year-old woman had been out drinking in town and after leaving a bar at 2.30am a member of staff tried to help her find a taxi home.

They had no luck and eventually she gave up and walked off through the town.

Having been alerted, the CCTV operator followed her through Exchange Street to Bond Street.

She was at the rear of the Tesco store when a man pulled up next to her in a car.

She believed it to be a mini-cab and got in but during the journey home she claims the driver twice got into the back of the car with her, the second time he allegedly tried to rape her.

Rami Kayyali, 26, a sales assistant, of Chelmer Road, Chelmsford, appeared at Chelmsford Magistrates Court on Saturday charged with attempted rape. No application was made for bail and he was remanded in custody until August 26 when he will appear at Chelmsford Crown Court.

Two families have been jailed for their part in the people trafficking and forced prostitution of a Czech woman.

The 31-year-old woman from the Czech Republic was brought over to Manchester three years ago with her two children with promises of a better life.

The families, Roma gypsies from the Czech Republic, put the 31-year-old woman to work on the streets and in the brothels of Manchester.

Manchester Crown Court heard they did it for their own financial gain.

Five men and two women pleaded guilty to charges of people trafficking or controlling prostitution for gain at Manchester Crown Court.

On the victim's arrival into the UK Gejza Kaco, 24, forced her to hand over her passport and live at his home in Louisa Street in Openshaw, which he shared with his girlfriend Aneta Goralova, 21, his sister Bozena Kacova, 30, and her boyfriend Marian Cervenak, 28.

Kaco raped her and forced her to work as a prostitute and took her earnings. He also threatened to kill her and sell her children's organs or force them into pornography if she did not complyhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7446962.stm

A rapist who preyed on vulnerable women has today, Tuesday 10 June 2008, been jailed indefinitely.

Steven Relf (born 26/03/69) of Alness Road, Whalley Range, pleaded guilty at Manchester Crown Court Crown Square to two charges of rape at an earlier hearing.

He was given an indeterminate prison sentence for public protection and ordered to serve a minimum term of four years and 105 days before he will be eligible to apply for parole.

Relf worked as a bar manager at the Lounge Bar on Wilbraham Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy.

The US-citizen used his position to spot women who were vulnerable before befriending them and then raping them.

On 21 July 2007, one of his victims, a 39-year-old woman was in the bar and served a drink by Relf, who has not worked at the bar since his arrest in September last year.

She later began to walk around the bar, looking for her friend. She remembers a man grabbing her arm and then her next recollection is of being distressed in a taxi. She had been raped by Relf.

Two months later, on 21 September 2008, a 19-year-old woman went to the bar and noticed Relf was staring at her. She moved on to another pub, but later that night she noticed him on the street after locking up.

It would have been clear that the teenager was on the phone arguing with her boyfriend.

Relf started talking to her and suggested he shared a taxi home with her. He had obtained her trust so much that he spoke to her boyfriend on the phone and assured him that he would look after the woman.